Does Insurrection carry the worst case of "the villain actually has a point" in a movie?
I think that even the powers that be at Paramount tried to point out all of the plotholes in a rare positive example of executive meddling:
https://www.quora.com/In-which-movies-did-the-villain-actually-have-a-point/answer/Mitch-Wyatt-1
Imagine this- you live in an Immortality planet, a political schism forces you out, and then you start dying. A bit unfair isn’t it? So, you decide that they are fascists that want to keep this for themselves, literally just a few hundred people for an entire planet!
Understandably, the Son’a got pretty mad. They started thinking that maybe a few hundred people shouldn’t hoard an entire planet. That is madness. That’s like saying that because your family got to North America first, no one else can live there.
So, they understandably came to the belief that it should belong to everyone. Trillions of people in the Federation could benefit from the planet’s special properties. Sure, maybe the Son’A got carried away. They were pissed. Wouldn’t you be? They left you to die because of a political squabble.
Movie Picard (who acts totally different from TNG Picard) decided to go rogue, ignore the democratic process completely, and lie to everyone in his own organization, taking up arms against them, so that a few hundred people could horde immortality for themselves and let everyone else in the entire universe die.
How about negotiation? Letting people come to your planet, and- I don’t know, how about landing on a different continent from the one you live on? They could keep control, even if that’s the big issue. But no help for anyone else at all?
Dear Ba’ku (true villains of Insurrection)
You should at lease have to look dying people who come to your planet begging you for help in the eyes and tell them to their face that you don’t care.
Also, ask yourself this, humble reader. Say in real life, there was some tribe in the Amazon rainforest that lived on a patch of land containing plants that would save you from death. They weren’t really using it, but they didn’t want anyone to come near their entire forest. Wouldn’t you be a bit pissed?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/StrawmanHasAPoint/Film
Star Trek: Insurrection: This is a common criticism of the film, as Picard and his crew mutiny rather than remove people who aren't even native to a planet, number less than 1000, who're sitting on a literal fountain of youth that could save the lives of millions...all during the Dominion War, a conflict the Federation is badly losing at this point, where it could turn the tide in their favor. What's even worse, is that if the Federation and its allies lose the war, they predict that over a hundred billion people will die. Of course, strawman villains are used to shore up Picard's side as being right - the bad guys are dog-kickers who want revenge on the pacifist Baku (plus they're ugly), so by the movie's logic this makes it okay. Even many cast members (including the director, Jonathan Frakes), felt that in this case removing the Baku would have been acceptable. The sad part is that this would have been easily avoided by having the reveal be that the slaving drug dealing Dominion allies they were working with were lying about the benefits.
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